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Art And Australia
Art & Australia Pty Ltd is a biannual digital magazine, the country's longest-running art journal, since 1963. Art & Australia (now Art + Australia) relaunched a new digital publishing platform in August 2022. History In May 2013, ''ARTAND Australia'' celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. First published by Sam Ure Smith in May 1963, it followed Sam's father Sydney Ure Smith’s publication " Art in Australia", which was in print 1916–42. From 1963 to 1983, Mervyn Horton was the magazine's founding editor. He was followed by Elwyn Lynn, Jennifer Phipps and Leon Paroissien, Dinah Dysart, Hannah Fink and Laura Murray Cree. In 2003, Eleonora Triguboff became Editor/Publisher of ''ARTAND Australia'', former editors include Laura Murray-Cree, Claire Armstrong, Katrina Schwarz, Michael Fitzgerald and Genevieve O'Callaghan. The magazine has also involved many distinguished editorial advisers. Since 2004, winners of the ''ARTAND Australia'' / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mervyn Horton
Mervyn Emrys Rosser Horton (27 July 1917 – 1 February 1983) was an Australian art editor, art collector and philanthropist. Early life Horton was born at L’Aiglon 278 Glebe Point Road Glebe, New South Wales, six years after his parents had migrated to Australia. He was the only child of Welsh-born Ethel Mabel (née Harris) and Harry Horton, an English chartered accountant and businessman. His family moved to Penalt in Ashfield from where Horton attended Newington College (1930–1935) He edited the school magazine ''The Newingtonian'' and was a committee member of the Newington’s historical society. In 1936 the Horton’s attended the Berlin Olympics and on return Horton submitted travel articles to the ''Sydney Morning Herald''. He was offered work with the paper but Harry Horton insisted his son enrol in a profession. He spent a year studying medicine at the University of Sydney before switching to law. Horton was an articled clerk when his father died in 1940. Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula Hoff
Ursula Hoff (26 December 1909 in London, UK – 10 January 2005 in Melbourne) was an Australian scholar and prolific author on art. She enjoyed a long career at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, where she was deputy director from 1968 to 1973. Her involvement then continued when she was appointed London Adviser of the Felton Bequest (1975–83), a major charitable foundation dedicated to the NGV. Early years Ursula Hoff was born on 26 December 1909 in London to Hans Leopold Hoff, Hamburg-based German Jewish merchant, and his wife, née Thusnelde Margarethe (Tussi) Bulcke, of a German Lutheran upper-middle-class family. Shortly after her birth, the family moved to Hamburg, where Ursula grew up and completed her primary and secondary education. In 1930, Ursula Hoff commenced academic studies spread between the universities of Frankfurt, Cologne, and Munich; later the same year, she commenced studies at the University of Hamburg; among her teachers were Erwin Panofsk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Davidson
Robyn Davidson (born 6 September 1950) is an Australian writer best known for her 1980 book ''Tracks'', about her 2,700 km (1,700 miles) trek across the deserts of Western Australia using camels. Her career of travelling and writing about her travels has spanned 40 years. Biography Robyn Davidson was born at Stanley Park, a cattle station in Miles, Queensland, the second of two girls. When Robyn was 11 years old, her mother committed suicide, and she was largely raised by her unmarried aunt (her father's sister), Gillian. She went to a girls' boarding school in Brisbane. She received a music scholarship but did not take it up. In Brisbane, Robyn shared a house with biologists and studied zoology. In 1968, aged 18, she went to Sydney and later lived a bohemian life in a Sydney Push household at Paddington, while working as a card-dealer at an illegal gambling house. In 1975, Robyn moved to Alice Springs in an effort to work with camels for a desert trek she was planning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian singer, songwriter, poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Cave's music is generally characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love and violence.Stephen Thomas Erlewine and Steve Huey, AllMusic, _Biography))).html" ;"title="(((Nick Cave > Biography)))">(((Nick Cave > Biography))) Retrieved 30 September 2009. Born and raised in rural Victoria, Cave studied art in Melbourne before fronting the Birthday Party, one of the city's leading post-punk bands, in the late 1970s. They relocated to London in 1980. Disillusioned by life there, they evolved towards a darker and more challenging sound that helped inspire gothic rock and acquired a reputation as "the most violent live band in the world". Cave became recognised for his confronta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Castro
Brian Albert Castro (born 16 January 1950) is an Australian novelist and essayist. Biography Castro was born in Hong Kong and has lived in Australia since 1961. He was Chair of Creative Writing (2008-2019) at the University of Adelaide and Director of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice. His publisher is Giramondo Publishing. Born in Hong Kong of Portuguese, Chinese and English parentage, Brian Castro was educated at St Joseph's College Hunter's Hill and the University of Sydney, after which he worked in Australia, France and Hong Kong as a teacher and writer. His first novel ''Birds Of Passage'' (1983) won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award. ''Double-Wolf'' (1991) won The Age Fiction Prize, the Vance Palmer Prize and the Innovative Writing Prize at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. ''After China'' (1992) again won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award. His sixth novel, ''Stepper'' (1997), was awarded the National Book Council Prize for Fiction. ''Shanghai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lily Brett
Lily Brett (born Lilijahne Brajtsztajn 5 September 1946, Feldafing displaced persons camp, Bavaria, Germany) is an Australian novelist, essayist and poet. She lived in North Carlton and then Elwood/Caulfield (suburbs of Melbourne) from 1948 to 1968, in London 1968–1971, Melbourne (1971–1989) and then moved permanently to New York City. In Australia she had an early career as a pop music journalist, including writing for music magazine ''Go-Set'' from May 1966 to September 1968. From 1979 she started writing poems, prose fiction and non-fiction. As a daughter of Holocaust survivors, her works include depictions of family life including living in Melbourne and New York. Four of her fictional novels are ''Things Could Be Worse'' (1990), '' Just Like That'' (1994), ''Too Many Men'' (2001) and '' You Gotta Have Balls'' (2005). Biography Brett's parents, Max (born Mojsze Brajtsztajn, 1916) and Rose (née Rozka Szpindler, ca. 1921–1986), lived in Łódź, Poland before the outb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Bail
Murray Bail (born 22 September 1941) is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction. In 1980 he shared the Age Book of the Year award for his novel ''Homesickness.'' He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He has lived most of his life in Australia except for sojourns in India (1968–70) and England and Europe (1970–74). He lives in Sydney. He was trustee of the National Gallery of Australia from 1976 to 1981 and wrote a book on Australian artist Ian Fairweather. A portrait of Bail by the artist Fred Williams is hung in the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. The portrait was done while both Williams and Bail were Council members of the National Gallery of Australia. Career He is most well known for ''Eucalyptus'', which won the Miles Franklin Award in 1999. His other work includes the novels ''Homesickness'', which was a joint winner of The Age Book of the Year in 1980, and ''Holden's Performance'', another award-winner. Reviewers recently compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Paton
Justin Paton (born 1972) is a New Zealand writer, art critic and curator, currently based in Sydney, Australia. His book ''How to Look at a Painting'' (2005) was adapted into a 12-episode television series by TVNZ in 2011. Education Paton studied art history and English at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Arts writer After university, Paton worked as an art critic for New Zealand newspaper ''The Press''. He was the editor of New Zealand's oldest literary journal, ''Landfall'', from 2000 until 2005. Paton's book ''How to Look at a Painting'' was published in 2005. It was critically well-received, being selected as the Best Art Book of 2005 by both the '' New Zealand Listener'' and ''The Press'', and won the Montana New Zealand Book Award for Contemporary Culture. ''How to Look at a Painting'' was adapted into a 12-episode television series by TVNZ, which aired in 2011. Paton presented the show. Kim Knight, reviewing the show for the '' Sunday Star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie King
Natalie King (born 1966) is an Australian curator and writer working in Melbourne, Australia. She specializes in Australian and international programs for contemporary art and visual culture. This includes exhibitions, publications, workshops, lectures and cultural partnerships across contemporary art and indigenous culture. King was formerly Chief Curator of Melbourne Biennial Lab, the Creative Associate of MPavilion and curator of Tracey Moffatt for the Australian Pavilion at the 57th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2017. As from 2017, she is a senior research fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia and was recently appointed to the role of enterprise professor at the VCA. In that role she was named in ''The Australian Financial Review'' 100 Women of Influence awards for Arts, Culture and Sport in October 2018. In September 2019, King was appointed as curator of the first Pacific and transgender artist, Yuki Kihara, to rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Berghuis
Thomas Jakob Berghuis is a curator, art historian, and former museum director based in Leiden, Netherlands. Career From 2008 to 2013 Berghuis worked as a lecturer in Asian Art at the University of Sydney. From 2013 to May 2015 he was the Robert H. N. Ho Curator of Chinese Art at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, after which he Berghuis moved to Jakarta, Indonesia to become the first director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN), launched in January 2016. Berghuis has been a lecturer in art history with the University of Amsterdam; a Board Member of Framer Framed, a platform for contemporary art, visual culture, and critical theory & practice in Amsterdam; and an honorary principal fellow with the School of Culture & Communication at The University of Melbourne, Australia. Berghuis has curated and co-curated several exhibitions, including ''Edge of Elsewhere'' (2010–2012) with the Sydney Festival at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Waterlow
Nicholas Anthony Ronald Waterlow (30 August 1941 – 9 November 2009) was a curator at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery at UNSW in Sydney, Australia until his death. He was well known and respected as an expert on the history of art in Australia and was on the editorial board of the Art & Australia magazine. He was notable for his curating at the Biennale of Sydney at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and a retrospective of the pop artist Martin Sharp. Waterlow was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 1990 Australia Day Honours for "service to the arts". See also *Visual arts of Australia Australian art is any art made in or about Australia, or by Australians overseas, from prehistoric times to the present. This includes Aboriginal, Colonial, Landscape, Atelier, early-twentieth-century painters, print makers, photographers, and ... References *Nick Waterlow staff profile, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wale*Nick Waterlow's Obituary in Studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Olsen (Australian Artist)
John Henry Olsen AO OBE (born 21 January 1928) is an Australian artist and winner of the 2005 Archibald Prize. Olsen's primary subject of work is landscape. Early life and training John Olsen was born in Newcastle on 21 January 1928. He moved to Bondi Beach with his family in 1935 and began a lifelong fascination with Sydney Harbour. He attended St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill. After leaving school in 1943, he went to the Dattillo Rubbo Art School in 1947 and from 1950 to 1953 studied at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney, and Auburn School from 1950 to 1956. In 1957, Sydney business man, Robert Shaw and his then wife, Annette, supported by art critic Paul Haefliger sponsored John Olsen to go to Europe and paint. After visiting London and Cornwall in England, he left for Europe. Olsen studied printmaking at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 etching studio in Paris in 1957, followed by two years in Deià Spain. Olsen sent works back from Spain for his first sol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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